About our Servers
Using only name-brand,
state-of-the-art equipment such as:
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Cisco®/Juniper® routers
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3Com™
Switches
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Intel™
Processors
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IBM/Dell®
servers
and employing RAID-1 dual disk drive
redundancy,
our servers instantly and seamlessly switch to
a mirrored hard
drive if the first hard drive should fail.
This avoids any
service interruptions.
Constant server monitoring ensures data is
kept safe and that hosted websites maintain maximum operational
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"Tell me that in English!"
When you upload a web
file to our servers, it gets written and saved immediately in two
places, on two separate hard drives. If the main hard drive
ever fails:
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companies: your website would go down until the
backup files could be installed.
With our company:
the server will immediately switch to the second
hard drive (the instant backup kicks in) and your files will continue to
be accessible while the first drive is repaired or replaced. |
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Our network operations center, in
Miami, Florida, features high
level security,
raised flooring, climate-control, UPS power supply, and a fire suppression
system. We utilize multiple,
redundant connections
to
major backbones throughout the U.S. with industry leaders such as:
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Aleron (Virginia)
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Level3 Communications
(Arizona and Nebraska)
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Quest ( California,
Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, Florida,
New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, )
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NAC (New Jersey)
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Willtel (Georgia)
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NTT/Verio (U.S., Brazil, UK,
France, China, Japan, Australia,
Germany, Netherlands, Hong Kong, Taiwan,
Korea)
and
14 other bandwidth providers throughout the world
using BGP (Border Gateway
Protocol) to ensure the best performance and
guaranteed uptime of the network.
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Why is having multiple
backbones important?
A backbone is a
large-scale network, usually one that offers services to other
backbones or ISPs. It is standard for a beginning ISP to rely on one
backbone provider (such as UUNET, Sprint, or AT&T) for its
connection to the rest of the Internet. As the ISP grows, it usually
buys more bandwidth from its existing backbone provider. This has
the advantage of simplicity and consistency, but it has an
unfortunate side effect - the ISP is only as reliable as the
backbone provider it has chosen. If the backbone goes down, the ISP
and all its users go down with it! |
Here's how our redundant backbone
system works:
Should
one of our providers go down, packets leaving our network are automatically
redirected through another route via a different provider, thus providing
near zero down time for our customers.
| Note:
Redundant means "overabundant," "overkill," "repetitious" ... "too
much." It has a negative connotation in conversation
(ex. "Deja Vu all over again" is a redundant statement.) It
has a very positive and valuable connotation in webhosting, however.
Think of it as website connection insurance. |
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